for instancinstance, the white appeal is $1.2 trillion and the cuts we made just last summer, he doesn't count that as new spending. repealing the cuts we agreed to. in law, they rightly -- your budget rightly stops the planned cuts to medicare providers, the doctor cuts, but without any money to pay for it. the budget takes credit for discretionary caps, spending limits that are already in law. not part of this budget. and the budget pre-tends that war spending will continue at higher levels so long-planned reductions in borrowing, magically produce free money, that can be spent somewhere else. the war costs were not paid for by dedicated streams of money. it was paid for by borrowed money. there is no money there to harvest. so mr. zients, i hope we can have a candid discussion today. i hope we can move past sound bytes. the american people deserve a budget that takes them off the unsustainable debt course washington spenders have put them on. your budget does not do so. i look forward to discussion today and perhaps we can reach some agreements. even in this election year, that would